[Fineus]

Like in Homeworld with those frigates that send out litle drones?

[Mad Bomber]

 

Originally posted by WraithHost:
I did a vasudan combat drone called the Scarab about 2 months ago.

Erm you sure you want to call it that? The PVS Scarab is the Vasudan FS1 support ship.

[Setekh]

I think Dark tried to call some of his ships Scarabs as well.

Oops.

[WraithHost]

ALL names are used now!    

I'll just have to brass neck it and reuse a name.

Our military reuse names after a while too.

anyone who wants the Scarab can download it
here


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[Ace]

How about drones that are shaped like Tsunami bombs, about the size of a countermeasure, and have a single turret with a light (ML-16 or Avenger type) laser on it?

No afterburners or shields, just a wide firing arc for a light gun.

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[WraithHost]

Ace:
not a bad idea, but have you looked at how large a fighter cannon is ? they must be 3 - 4 M long.

Your idea is good but it would need to be a new lighter weapon, perhaps similar in effect to a ML 16 etc but smaller. also drones that size couldn't carry very big reactors, perhaps the battery systems proposed in a thread a while back would be good. maybe a trickle feed reactor to slowly recharge weapons banks.

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[Nico]

 

Originally posted by WraithHost:
Ace:
not a bad idea, but have you looked at how large a fighter cannon is ? they must be 3 - 4 M long.

Your idea is good but it would need to be a new lighter weapon, perhaps similar in effect to a ML 16 etc but smaller. also drones that size couldn't carry very big reactors, perhaps the battery systems proposed in a thread a while back would be good. maybe a trickle feed reactor to slowly recharge weapons banks.

you  know the ML 16 does less damage than colliding with a fly?

[Jabu]

With the weapons advances the GTVA's had it wouldn't be a challenge to get an ML-16 into a meter-lenght weapon.

Or just use an LL-4 or something. Since ML is Medium Laser and HL is Heavy Laser, LL is Light Laser. I don't know it FS had any of these.

[Ace]

A modified ML series weapon using a pure battery core would work.

Could anyone model it up? Maybe call it the GVDr Tunis... I was thinking about some sort of drone like this slaved to a TAG when playing with ideas for the Interregum missions between Twilight and tBE. (since I plan for the final tBE release to include Twilight, the tBE demo, and the main campaign connected)

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[WraithHost]

Sorry I'd forgotten the ML16 was the FS1 basic laser and not the FS2 one.

It should be no problem for up to date weapons to do something similar in a small weapon. I like the LL designation Idea.

Does a weapon have to be in a turret to be slaved to a tag system?


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[Unidan]

I just set up 80 scarabs against 3 wings of fighters, guess who won?

[Ace]

I'm pretty sure it has to be a turret to be tag slaved.

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[Stryke 9]

 

Originally posted by Jabu:
With the weapons advances the GTVA's had it wouldn't be a challenge to get an ML-16 into a meter-lenght weapon.

Or just use an LL-4 or something. Since ML is Medium Laser and HL is Heavy Laser, LL is Light Laser. I don't know it FS had any of these.

Subach HL-7.
And they'd probably make some peashooter for a little drone... they're not there to take down capships, just annoy the enemy to death.

[WraithHost]

try 80 scarabs against a Deimos  

They really don't like flak cannons do they?

It's good though they were designed as an anti fighter weapon not an anti capship weapon.

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[Red5]

 How about making these remote fighting units or RFU's explode on impact and only have a limited energy amount so they cant fire after say 10-20 shots, they have no chance of rejumping so they all kamakazi at a cap ship or whatever they can,  if all else fails, set FRED to give em a timer of 10 minutes of action then they self destruct!!

[Shrike]

too bad you can only stick 6 ships in wing... if you could put, oh about... 20 or so in one wing, then weapon drones would actually be good.

And why do they have to be named?

They're munitions, what ever happened to military alphanumerics?

Hmm, the GTVA Mk. 12 ADCAP Weapons Drone (laser variant) sounds good enough, personally.    

Now, if a game implemented drones or missiles with self-destructing X-Ray laser tips, now that would be cool.  SEXPing all that would be pain in the *** , to put it mildly.

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[Neon]

Can't anyone do a Subach Hl7 to fire like a minigun?   Hell, we're in the future, don't say me that they haven't discovered a way to cool down weapons!

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Neon:
Can't anyone do a Subach Hl7 to fire like a minigun?   Hell, we're in the future, don't say me that they haven't discovered a way to cool down weapons!

ammo based weapons are useless agaisnt shields, so that would make a crappy antifighter drone  

[Neon]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
ammo based weapons are useless agaisnt shields, so that would make a crappy antifighter drone  

Huh, who talked about ammo based weapons?  

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Neon:
Huh, who talked about ammo based weapons?  

minigun?